We are Claudia Maldonado and Alicia López from the CLEAR Center for Spanish-speaking Latin America, proud members of the CLEAR Initiative. Would you recognize an “enabling environment” if you “saw” it? The enabling environment concept is very popular among professionals in evaluation. But what does it mean? How you create and cultivate this kind of …
I am Boubacar Aw, Coordinator of the Regional Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results (CLEAR) for Francophone Africa hosted at Centre Africain d’Etudes Superieures en Gestion (CESAG) in Senegal, Dakar. I am writing today to offer practical tips on how to develop teaching materials through a Training of Trainers (ToT) model. These tips are …
Hello – My name is Gemma Stevenson. I am Associate Director for the Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP) where we run rigorous research projects and deliver evaluation trainings as part of CLEAR South Asia. So what have we learnt over the last three years delivering trainings on M&E to the Pakistani government and …
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Tim Clynick, Acting Director of the Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results in Anglophone Africa, (University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, Ghana Institute of Public Administration and the Kenya School of Government) Greetings from CLEAR Anglophone Africa! We are often asked where our programme – now in its third year – is having the …
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We are Diva Dhar (Program Director) and Urmy Shukla (Capacity Building Manager) at the CLEAR South Asia Regional Center, based at J-PAL South Asia at the Institute for Financial Management and Research. We work to strengthen M&E skills in South Asia, focusing on India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. As part of our work, …
I’m Zhao Min, Deputy Director of the Asia-Pacific Finance and Development Center (AFDC) in Shanghai, China. AFDC is a member of the CLEAR Initiative and hosts the East Asia CLEAR Center. If you follow what is happening in international evaluation capacity building (ECB), you might have heard about CLEAR – the Regional Centers for Learning …
Hello, my name is Dan McDonnell and I am a Community Manager for the American Evaluation Association. Twitter, and social media in general, can be quite the rabbit hole, into which minutes and hours have the odd habit of just disappearing. Luckily, there are plenty of social media tools that can help you organize, prioritize and schedule …
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Greetings to the aea365 community. We are Kelly Washburn and Julie Carpineto from The Institute for Community Health in Cambridge, MA. We are the local evaluators of an urban high school-based teen pregnancy prevention program in Greater Boston. We would like to share an example of a creative evaluation project developed with this program. Over 90 high students participated in …
Hello, I am Fred Nickols, a consultant, writer, former executive, and currently Managing Partner of Distance Consulting LLC. I fancy myself a toolmaker to knowledge workers and part of that involves eliminating unnecessary complexity. Nowhere is that more needed than in strategic planning. The topic of strategic planning is an absolute quagmire of competing and …
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Hello, we are Linda Cabral and Jillian Richard-Daniels from the Center for Health Policy and Research at University of Massachusetts Medical School. Collecting and reporting data on a set of predefined measures is something that many evaluators are asked to do. This typically quantitative process involves gathering data, often from multiple sources and stakeholders, to …
